I’m building a foundational reading list for our lab (systems & circuit neuroscience, compneuro, modeling, neuromodulators, population coding etc.).

I’d like to crowdsource recommendations.

Which review(s) would you consider mandatory reading for the next generation of researchers?

Whether the system can be flexibly redirected to prioritize specific locations has been unclear. Using large-scale #Neuropixels recordings in freely behaving rats, we find that both sweeps – and the internal direction signals driving them – are dynamically modulated moment by moment. (4/6)

Very nice! Unfortunately, when I click in the link and log in with my account the kindle option does not appear. Probably because my account is from another country (?)

Excited to share our new preprint! We explore the link between the locus coeruleus (LC) and arousal for astrocytes, pyramidal cells, interneurons in the hippocampus. A fantastic collaboration with @sianduss.bsky.social @bohaceklab.bsky.social, and many others: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/5

Survey: What are neuroscience’s most transformative new tools? Which new tools—including artificial intelligence, deep-learning methods, genetic tools and advanced neuroimaging—are making the largest impact?

To identify the most transformative tools and technologies in the past five years, @thetransmitter.bsky.social surveyed readers and contributors and worked with a market-research firm to interview neuroscientists around the world. See what they had to say: www.thetransmitter.org/methods/what...

Astroengrams: rethinking the cellular substrate for memory - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Recent evidence suggests that astrocytes, through coordinated activation in sparse ensembles, contribute to memory traces — termed ‘astro-neuronal engrams’. In this Perspective, Sánchez Romero and Nav...

Astroengrams: rethinking the cellular substrate for memory — a Perspective by Javier Sánchez Romero & Marta Navarrete

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🗓️ May 11–12, 2026
Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor
🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki
‼️ Call for abstracts now open
🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/
#HippocampusGreen

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Astrocyte networks are much larger than previously thought, which “flips the way we think about astrocytes and what their networks may mean,” says @liddelowsa.bsky.social.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...

A new study by Forli, Fan, Qi & Yartsev 2025 shows that wingbeat cycle in bats is #rhythmic at 8Hz ❗❗& like the #rat #stepping, internal hippocampal representations can synchronize with the wingbeat phase.

➡️ Bat wingbeat www.nature.com/articles/s41...
➡️ Rat steps www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦇🐀👀

Now is your last chance to apply for one of 16 fully funded neuroscience PhD fellowships in the Neuroscience Academy Denmark PhD programme 🧠 Application deadline is August 11 - read more 👉 bit.ly/nad-phd-2025

This is amazing: spatial navigation and culture together. Excited to check the future documentary and the future results!

I'm pleased to share our new work, “Spatio-temporal organization of network activity patterns in the hippocampus”, out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social !
With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding.

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Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

🚨 New lab paper!🚨

A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social

We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Paris Neuro Course: parisneuro.ovh

Josh will lecture on the Open Ephys initiative and Open Ephys GUI development.
Ceci will discuss open hardware and the UCLA Miniscope ecosystem in the hands-on module led by Michael Graupner and Mahesh Miikael Karnani.

A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of

Neuropixels Opto

Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

Today in bioRxiv

960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors

By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Disrupted spatial and contextual memory encoding in the hippocampus of 5xFAD mice precedes cognitive impairment Alzheimer's disease (AD) is marked by progressive cognitive decline, yet the underlying neural mechanisms are not fully understood. To address this, we investigated hippocampal activity in 5xFAD model...

New preprint from the lab:
Disrupted spatial and contextual memory encoding in the hippocampus of 5xFAD mice precedes cognitive impairment.
Yimei Li, Mary Ann Go, Hualong Zhang, Simon Schultz.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So many awesome neuroscience courses! Thanks for including Neuromatch Academy @thetransmitter.bsky.social! 🤗

#compneurosky

Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Save the date!

UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting

9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters

Abstract & registration opening soon

Pls share!

neuralcomputation.uk

Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.

New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wrote a piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about why I love participating in experimental summer courses, particularly @nsb-mbl.bsky.social.

www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

A great way to wrap up 2024 scientifically.

The 2024 NAD PhD fellows to start their PhD projects in January 2025 🎓

Read more about their PhD projects, PhD labs and supervisors here 👉 bit.ly/4fB5Xhu